brown hyena
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.80 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A comparatively rare species of hyena, Parahyaena brunnea, endemic to desert and semi-desert areas and open woodland savannahs of southern Africa.
Example Sentences
- "It is now well established that brown hyenas, at least when rearing cubs, deliberately hunt other carnivores (up to the size of cheetahs, on the Kruger Park evidence) and take them to the breeding dens as food for the cubs."
- "Because they are scavengers in a semiarid ecosystem where carrion is often limited, brown hyenas naturally occur in small numbers."
- "The brown hyena has evolved to live in desert systems throughout southern Africa, where it occurs at low densities."